Andrea Barrett

In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a hospital in Archangel, one night finds outside the gates an exhausted and frostbitten soldier crouched over the reins of a pony sleigh carrying the body of another soldier.

American Novelist

Meriwether Lewis

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

American Explorer

Ben Saunders

What's the nastiest injury I've sustained? Just a frostbitten toe... but thankfully it's still intact.

British Explorer

Use 'frostbitten' when someone's skin is damaged due to extreme cold.

Physical Harm

Stress that the injury is directly caused by cold exposure, not another injury.

Immediate Cause

'Frostbitten' suggests varying degrees of cold damage, from mild to severe.

Potential Severity

'Frostbitten' can describe a place or thing as lifeless and desolate, not just cold.

Metaphorical Chill

When used metaphorically, it can imply emotional coldness or detachment.

Emotional Tone

 started a heatwave when temperatures finally climbed above zero for the first time between the winds and the temperature it was just I was just way outside of my comfort zone I was kind of always focused on my immediate survival I had to make sure that my my nose didn't get frostbitten my hands and feet

Andrew Skurka: Trekking...

 And after just three minutes in that water, he was able to get himself out. And his hands were so badly frostbitten that he had to return to England. He went to a local hospital and there they said,